Rebecca Rego Barry
Coming to auction next week is a small collection of New York City books, maps, and ephemera that belonged to Dr. Leo Hershkowitz, a professor, urban archaeologist, and inveterate collector.
The rare book world is abuzz with the news that a film based on a real-life special collections robbery in 2004 is making its way to a national audience after a successful premiere at Sundance.
In search of a few new books about books to add your library? May we suggest...
Just a few weeks ago, the Yosemite Conservancy released a new book titled Anywhere That is Wild: John Muir's First Wal
Only four copies of the first edition of Thomas Paine's morale-boosting pamphlet, The American Crisis ("These are the times which try men's souls...") were known to survive, but a
Sure, we all know Hay-on-Wye, but how many other book towns can you name? How about forty-four more?
It's not an easy job, but someone has to do it: I spent Friday and Saturday in New York City browsing the antiquarian book fairs.
French author Victor Hugo was, it seems, a militant supporter of American abolitionist John Brown.
